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Unit 9.
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A Meet the Meteorite Hunter Michael Farmer is a meteorite hunter.
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Here he talks about his unusual job, a National Geographic, NG.
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What's the hardest part of your job, Michael Farmer?
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I'm always looking for new pieces of meteorite rock, so I have to travel a lot.
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I've been to about 70 countries or so.
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The job can be dangerous because some rocks are worth a lot of money.
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On one such trip, I was robbed and almost killed.
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That was scary.
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There are other issues too.
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It's illegal to take meteorite pieces from some countries.
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So you have to be very careful and learn the law.
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It's different everywhere.
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BNG.
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Are there a lot of meteorite pieces on Earth?
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Michael Farmer.
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Yes, there are millions, but most land in the forest, jungle or ocean.
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They're almost impossible to locate.
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One of the best places to find pieces is in the Sahara Desert in Africa.
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You can see them easily in the sand.
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The heat also preserves the rocks well.
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CNG, what's the most valuable meteorite you've found?
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Michael Farmer.
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I found one piece in the Middle East and I sold it for $100,000.
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It was a small piece about the size of a walnut, but the most valuable was in Canada.
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Three partners and I discovered a very rare type of meteorite called a palisite.
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It weighed 53 kilograms and it's around 4.5 billion years old.
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We sold it to the Canadian government for just under a million dollars.
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Now it's in the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
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It's a national treasure.
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DNG.
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Who else buys the rocks from you?
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Michael Farmer.
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Museums and private collectors are always calling me.
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New meteorites are in demand and so they sell quickly.
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I also sell them to a lot of scientists.
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They don't have the time or money to search for these rocks.
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Without the help of hunters, 99% of these meteorites would be lost to science.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B1 se basa en el vídeo “READING EXPLORER 1 UNIT 9A MEET THE METEORITE HUNTER”. Las palabras que más se repiten: meteorite, piece, Farmer, rock, Michael. Este vídeo tiene 38 frases y 322 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 2:15. El hablante mantiene un ritmo constante de unas 144 palabras por minuto, cómodo para el shadowing. Solo el 79 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
hunter sustantivo/ˈhʌntɚ/perro de caza
unusual adjetivo/ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/inusual, inusitado
sand sustantivo/sænd/arena
discover verbo/dɪˈskʌvə/descubrir
scary adjetivo/ˈskɛə.ɹi/temible, espantoso
rob verbo/ɹɑb/robar
scientist sustantivo/ˈsaɪəntəst/científico, científica
preserve verbo/pɹəˈzɝv/preservar
treasure sustantivo/ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/tesoro
jungle sustantivo/ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/selva, jungla
weigh verbo/weɪ/pesar
locate verbo/ˈloʊˌkeɪt/ubicar, colocar
collector sustantivo/kəˈlɛk.tɚ/coleccionista
walnut sustantivo/ˈwɔlnət/nogal, noguera
meteorite sustantivo/ˈmi.ti.əˌɹaɪt/meteorito

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahoraI've been · you've found
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacewas robbed · would be lost
Superlativos the -est / the most … — lo más alto o lo más bajo de un grupothe hardest · the best · the most valuable
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — algo que ocurre ahora o en estos díasI'm always looking · are always calling

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 5 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, I've. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, meteorite /ˈmi.ti.əˌɹaɪt/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: discover /dɪˈskʌvə/, preserve /pɹəˈzɝv/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como hunter, unusual, sand.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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